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Magnite is the latest ad tech company to throw in with the Unified ID 2.0 initiative, an open source ID spearheaded by The Trade Desk. On Monday, Magnite said it will adopt the ID initiative to use encrypted and hashed email addresses as the basis for a standard identity replacement for third-party cookies. The Trade […]

TV measurement is hamstrung by household-level data. Despite the scale of set-top box and smart TV data, there’s no easy way to connect ad exposure on a television to a specific person within a household. “And if you don’t break TV data down to the person, it’s very difficult to do cross-media measurement or run […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by John Donahue, CEO and co-founder of WLxJS. The Justice Department’s antitrust suit against Google alleges that the search giant created and subsequently abused a monopolistic position in, well, search. And […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. YouTube Runs Defense YouTube is defending its decision to leave up videos falsely claiming that President Donald Trump won the 2020 election, Business Insider reports. Two days after the election, YouTube said it would allow videos proclaiming false or misleading election results, but that […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. WarningMedia After a second spate of layoffs at WarnerMedia on Tuesday, which hit between 5% to 7% of its 25,000 employees, CEO Jason Kilar addressed the company’s future during a town hall meeting. As per Business Insider, Kilar said that the “painful” cuts were […]

Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. This week on AdExchanger Talks, Advertiser Perceptions VP of Business Intelligence Lauren Fisher walks us through her company’s recent study on identity resolution solutions, sharing insights gleaned from more than 300 advertisers, marketers and agencies in the United […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. It’s All About Trust The political and cultural divide in the United States was starkly visible during the 2020 election – especially as the results rolled in last week. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to be a “healer in chief.” But as Campaign US […]

GroupM recently promoted veterans Kieley Taylor and Amanda Grant to global head of partnerships and global head of social, respectively, as part a strategic move aimed at strengthening the company’s relationships with Google as well as Amazon, Spotify, Twitter and others. Taylor, previously global head of social, will focus heavily on Google as she designs […]

“The Sell Sider” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Wenda Zhou, publisher product lead at IPONWEB. The quest for cleaner supply has been high on the buyer agenda for some time, with much written about why routes through […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Antitrust Shade Add to cart: antitrust lawsuit. EU regulators filed antitrust charges on Tuesday against Amazon, accusing the ecommerce giant of using its access to data to gain an unfair advantage over the merchants on its platform, the AP reports. The news comes just […]

LiveRamp posted its first profitable quarter back in August, and the data company’s upward trajectory continued through its fiscal Q2 2021, the company reported Monday. For a second quarter in a row, LiveRamp was profitable with revenue increasing 16% YoY to $105 million. That’s more than the 11% growth LiveRamp predicted during its Q1. Read […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Disney Minus The Walt Disney Co. faces a moment of truth next week with the first anniversary of its launch of Disney Plus, The Information reports. This is when Verizon customers who signed up for the service through a one-year free promotion have to […]

Baseball legend Yogi Berra once famously said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Berra wasn’t referring to the 2020 presidential election, of course, but the quote is apt when it comes to polling data in the days and weeks leading to Election Day, which, according to most reports, were way off base and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Election Forecasting The absolute biggest question on everyone’s mind during the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election: How will media change? OK, maybe not the biggest. Regardless of who wins, expect regulatory consequences, Lucinda Southern writes as part of an Adweek staff roundup predicting […]

The Trade Desk is on a tear, striking three partnerships in quick succession over the course of a week to support the Unified ID 2.0 initiative. First was LiveRamp, then Criteo, followed by Nielsen. Each partnership tackles a different piece of the development process for UID 2.0, which aims to use encrypted and hashed email […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Lies And The Lying Liars Facebook and Twitter had their work cut out last night reining in President Trump’s wild claims – namely the false assertion that the election is being stolen from him. Trump posted this lie on both Twitter and Facebook. Twitter […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Reservations Donald Trump’s reelection campaign spent big money to book prime real estate on YouTube by grabbing the masthead in the days leading up to Nov. 3. But now that sort of real estate domination will no longer be an option. Google said […]

As Americans head to the polls, advertisers and publishers need to remain agile with their paid media strategies. There’s a lot we can’t know about what comes next. “As we’ve seen throughout several points this year, it’s all about staying flexible, making sure messaging is relevant and appropriate – but not going dark,” said Ken Blom, […]

Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Back in 2013 TripleLift released technology meant to improve the ad experience of real-time bidding, which up until then had only been applied to trusty (some would say dusty) formats such as the 728×90 and the 250×250. “We […]

This is the 13th installment in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe and Treasure Data. The marketing clouds are taking up a lot of mindshare as they belatedly foray into the CDP category. But “you’d be surprised at the number […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. WPP Bouncing Back? Advertising giant WPP is showing signs of recovery in Q3 after clients cut spending in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to The Wall Street Journal. WPP reported $3.84 billion in sales in the third quarter, beating expectations, according to […]

Amazon reported a record Q3 that was driven in part by a 51% increase in advertising revenue and buoyed by a surge in ecommerce due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The online retail giant’s accelerated push into advertising netted $5.4 billion in revenue – up from $3.6 million a year ago – with the company telling […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Risky Business Publishers got pummelled by the pandemic, and advertisers nervous about brand safety (and their overzealous blocklists) were at least partly to blame. With that in mind, the IAB Tech Lab accelerated the rollout of its Content Taxonomy 2.2 this week to help […]

Google printed more money during its Q3 2020, with $46.2 billion in revenue, up 14% YoY. Most of that was from search, which netted $26.3 billion in Q3. YouTube advertising was $5 billion. In total, Google’s Q3 ad revenue was $37 billion. What’s driving that growth?  After a deceleration in the second quarter, Q3’s revenue […]

The quest to figure out the future of online identity continues. Between Google’s birdcage and the indie ad tech solutions under development, a lot of smart minds are coming together to try and solve the problem with their own twist. But could these solutions end up creating new privacy challenges? One underreported problem is the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Unified Criteo and The Trade Desk might be competitors by day, but the future of identity, privacy and the open internet calls for collaboration. The day after TTD partnered with LiveRamp on the Unified ID 2.0 initiative, Criteo said that it too will lend […]

Ad verification company DoubleVerify clinched a $350 million investment deal Wednesday that will be used to buy out existing shareholders and help fuel its growth ahead of a reported initial public offering next year. The backing from a new investor group led by Tiger Global Management – which includes the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Bannister, co-founder and chief strategy officer at CafeMedia. User privacy is the largest trend shaping the direction of digital advertising. Governments are creating and enforcing new regulations that impact how advertising works, browsers […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Facebook’s Game Plan Facebook’s new video game streaming service, launched this week, is part of a big push to sell more ads. Facebook selling more ads? Who woulda thunk it. The service, which allows games to be played from the cloud and streamed directly to a […]

The Trade Desk is making its first bid for ubiquity for the Unified ID 2.0. Through a partnership with LiveRamp, announced on Tuesday, publishers will be able to access Unified ID 2.0, which is being built by The Trade Desk, through LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS), and buyers will be able to transact using LiveRamp’s […]